Attachment for hay-rakes.



No. 891,446. PATENTED-JUNE 2-3, 1908.

s. B. SEVERSON.

ATTACHMENT FOR HAY RAKES. APPLICATION FILED MAY13. 1907.

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w vSEVERT B. SEVERSON, OF CAMBRIDGE, IOWA.

ATTACHMENT FOR I-IAY-RAKES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SEVERT B. SEVERSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cambridge, in the county of Story and State of Iowa, haveinvented a certain new and useful Attachment for Hay-Rakes, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a device that may be used inthe nature of an attachment to be applied to any ordinary ing teeth maybe elevated to discharge the load, said device being provided with anumber of hay engaging arms that may be held in substantially verticalpositions bymeans of a foot lever, and when in said position willprevent the hay that is gathered by the rake teeth from rolling, andwill also enable the operator to gather a large quantity of hay so thatthe hay rake may be used in moving hay to a hay stacker or the like, andwhen the operator releases the pressure upon the foot lever, the saidarms will be moved rearwardly and upwardly with the hay, so that theload may be discharged in the ordinary manner.

My. invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combinationof the various parts of the device, whereby the objects contemplated areattained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims,and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows asectional view on the line 0c0c of Fig. 2, illustrating a hay rakehaving my invention applied thereto. The dotted lines show the hayengaging arms inthe position in which they are placed, when in activeuse. Fig. 2 shows a top or plan view of a hay rake having my improvementapplied thereto.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, I have used the referencenumeral 10 to indicate the rake axle, on which the supporting wheels 11are mounted. The rake teeth are indicated by the numeral 12, and are ofthe ordinary construction. Extending in front of the axle is the vehicleframe 13, to which front of the rock shaft 16 is a foot lever 18,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 13, 1907.

Patented June 23, 1908.

Serial No. 373,368.

connected with the arm 17 by means of a link 19. Fixed to oppositeportions of the rock shaft 16, are the arms 20, which extend forwardlyand downwardly, and which have pivoted to their forward ends, the arms21. When the arm 17 is in an upright position, asshown in Fig. 1, thenthe arms 20 extend forwardly and downwardly, as shown by solid lines inFig. 1. And when the rock shaft is operated by the foot lever 18-, thenthe arms 20 extend upwardly, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

Mounted near the forward end of the frame 13, is a rock shaft 22, towhich I have fixed two hay engaging arms 23, which normally' extendstraight downwardly, and have their forward ends curved forwardly. Thearms 21 are pivotally connected with the hay engaging arms 23, neartheir central portions.

In practical use, the arms 23 normally stand in an approximately uprightposition, and if the operators foot is removed from the lever 18, theywill swing rearwardly when engaged by a quantity of hay, while the rakeis moving over a field, and they will not in any way interfere with theproper operation of the hay rake. If however, it is desired to move alarge quantity of hay over a greater distance than a hay rake willordinarily carry it, then the operator places his foot upon the lever 18with suflicient force to hold the arms 23 in a substantially verticalposition as shown by solidlines in Fig. 1. in this position, the armswill prevent the hay in front of the rake teeth from rolling, and willenable the operator to carry a large quantity of hay to a point ofdischarge, such for instance as a hay stacker. When it is desired todump the hay, the operator removes his foot from the lever 18, and thenwhen the rake is further advanced the arms 23 will swing rearwardly, asshown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, whereupon the operator may dump the hayby elevating the rake teeth in the ordinary way.

Having thus described myv invention, what I claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States, therefor, is

1. The combination with a hay rake of a number of hay engaging armshinged to the hay rake frame in front of the rake teeth, a foot lever,and means for connecting the foot lever with said hay engaging arms,said means so arranged that a pressure upon the foot lever will tend toswing the hay engaging arms forwardly, and when said pressure is Whenremoved said hay engaging arms will be free to swing rearwardly andupwardly.

2. The combination with a hay rake of a rock shaft mounted on the hayrake frame slightly in advance of the rake teeth, two jointed arms fixedto the rock shaft and eX- tended downwardly and forwardly, two hayengaging arms pivoted to the rake frame in front of said rock shaft, andnormally eX- tended straight downwardly and having the forward ends ofthe jointed arms pivoted thereto, a foot lever pivoted to the frame, anarm connected with the rock shaft and a link connecting said arm withthe foot lever, said parts being so, arranged that the operator may bypressing upon the foot lever hold the hay engaging arms in asubstantially vertical position, and when said pressure is removed thehay engaging arms will be freeto swing rearwardly by the pressure on thehay when 20 the rake is being advanced.

Des Moines, Iowa, April 27, 1907.

SEVERT B. SEVERSON. Witnesses:

S. F. CHRIsTY, A. G. HAGUE.

